Could have put this banana peel
in the Green Bin,
let it go
to the city plant
where it decomposes in four weeks.
Releasing much carbon dioxide
into the air.
Instead,
I drop it
into the garbage bin.
Now it goes to the landfill
where it will stay
for forty years.
Giving us time
to figure out
what we do with all that carbon
we carelessly pump
into the atmosphere;
all that garbage
we mindlessly pile
in landfills.
By Shai Ben-Shalom 
